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WYPR Senior News Analyst Fraser Smith and his guests break down recent political news in Maryland.Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 6 am and 8:45 am.

IMP: State Budget Gets A Round Of Applause From State Republicans

WYPR's Statehouse Reporter Chris Connelly says Assembly Republicans are nearly eup0horic as they work on Gov. Larry Hogan’s budget. Thought amended and re-arranged by House Democrats, they believe the spending plan would have been much more expensive had a Democrat been in the governor’s office. The document will be approved or amended when it goes to the state senate.  

Christopher Connelly is a political reporter for WYPR, covering the day-to-day movement and machinations in Annapolis. He comes to WYPR from NPR, where he was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow, produced for weekend All Things Considered and worked as a rundown editor for All Things Considered. Chris has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. He’s reported for KALW (San Francisco), KUSP (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and KJZZ (Phoenix), and worked at StoryCorps in Brooklyn, N.Y. He’s filed stories on a range of topics, from a shortage of dog blood in canine blood banks to heroin addicts in Tanzania. He got his start in public radio at WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, when he was a student at Antioch College.